Megan's lawyers accidental successful tribunal papers that Akademiks "flatly refused" to uncover his root during a caller deposition.
Megan Thee Stallion attends Airbnb 2025 Summer Release connected May 13, 2025 successful Los Angeles, California. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
Lawyers for Megan Thee Stallion accidental societal media property DJ Akademiks indispensable uncover whether Tory Lanez sent him a confidential DNA investigating study during the now-jailed Canadian rapper’s 2022 prosecution for shooting Megan successful the foot.
Megan is successful the last stages of collecting grounds for her upcoming defamation trial against Milagro Gramz, a gossip blogger and ardent online defender of Lanez. The Houston rapper (Megan Pete) claims Lanez and his associates hired Gramz (Milagro Cooper) to station mendacious accusation astir the 2020 shooting, for which Lanez (Daystar Peterson) is present serving a 10-year situation term.
One of the galore Gramz societal media posts Megan’s lawyers person taken contented with is simply a 2022 tweet announcing that Lanez’s DNA was not recovered connected the weapon that changeable Megan. Gramz uploaded this connection to Twitter (now X) astatine the aforesaid clip that chap Lanez protagonist DJ Akademiks (Livingston Allen) posted an identical tweet.
Megan’s attorneys accidental these tweets mischaracterized the evidence: DNA investigating connected the weapon was inconclusive, meaning analysts could not find whether the familial worldly belonged to Lanez oregon not. And due to the fact that this study was nether a court-ordered seal astatine the clip of the tweets, Megan’s squad claims it indispensable person been leaked by Lanez oregon his associates.
“Circulating these erroneous posts was not simply premature publication: some Cooper and Allen disseminated mendacious characterizations of grounds months earlier the proceedings adjacent began,” wrote Megan’s lawyers successful a Tuesday (Sept. 16) tribunal filing. “Ms. Pete seeks find to beryllium that Peterson oregon his surrogates leaked that accusation — and possibly adjacent suggested the connection of the tweet — to Cooper and Allen.”
Megan’s squad is present seeking a tribunal bid that would unit Akademiks to accidental however helium learned astir this DNA evidence. While Akademiks is not being sued, helium was deposed for the Gramz proceedings past period — and helium “flatly refused” to uncover his source.
“Identifying this root is indispensable to proving the coordination betwixt Cooper and Peterson and exposing Cooper’s intent for perpetuating mendacious and demeaning claims against Ms. Pete,” wrote Megan’s attorneys.
Reps for Akademiks, Gramz and Lanez did not instantly instrumentality requests for remark connected Monday (Sept. 22).
Lanez was found guilty of 3 felony charges successful 2022 for shooting Megan successful the ft during a drunken statement aft Kylie Jenner‘s excavation enactment successful July 2020. The Canadian rapper maintains his innocence and is still appealing the conviction.
Megan sued Gramz successful 2024 for allegedly spreading falsehoods astir the lawsuit online, including the mischaracterized DNA report, arsenic portion of a “coordinated campaign” to undermine the blameworthy verdict and ruin Megan’s reputation.
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